A 21-year-old man was stabbed once with a three inch blade to the right of the xiphoid process. In the emergency department he was intoxicated with alcohol and combative but clinically well. Blood pressure was 107/77 mmHg and an initial tachy-cardia of 145 beats per minute resolved with analgesia. The wound was not bleeding and on external examination was found to be 2 cm wide and 2 cm deep. A chest radiograph excluded pneumothorax and demonstrated a normal cardiac sil-houette. The wound was sutured and after overnight observa-tion the patient was discharged. The patient presented again 107 days later with a one-week history of dyspnoea, reduction in exercise tolerance and a dry cough unre-sponsive to antibiotics. He had been fully active w...
Chest injury is an acute, extremely life-threatening condition. Among penetrating heart wounds, appr...
The patient 32 years old was admitted in the emergency department after a gun shot abdominal injury....
CASE HISTORY: The patient is a 23-year-old post-collegiate football player who was playing a recreat...
A 51-year-old man with previous psychiatric history and suicidal attempts stabbed himself in the lef...
In any patient with a history of penetrating thoracic trauma, cardiac injury must be kept in mind. H...
Reports describing traumatic lesions to the heart caused by a foreign body and #12288;are comparativ...
A case is presented of a 26-year-old man who was admitted to hospital having sustained a penetrating...
All around the world, mostly the young males are influenced by the penetrating cardiac chock. It is ...
We present a rare case of a child with penetrating cardiac injury (PCI) with a knife and its success...
Introduction: Cardiac trauma is considered as an emergency and due to its higher mortality rate its ...
Penetrating traumas, including gunshot and stab wounds, are the major causes of cardiac trauma. Our ...
A 43-year-old athletic black male was awoken from sleep with severe left-sided, nonradiating chest p...
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
We reported a young male with knife assault to his chest. He was transferred to the hospital without...
A 24 year old male presented to the emergency room with a 2 hour history of knife stab wound. He was...
Chest injury is an acute, extremely life-threatening condition. Among penetrating heart wounds, appr...
The patient 32 years old was admitted in the emergency department after a gun shot abdominal injury....
CASE HISTORY: The patient is a 23-year-old post-collegiate football player who was playing a recreat...
A 51-year-old man with previous psychiatric history and suicidal attempts stabbed himself in the lef...
In any patient with a history of penetrating thoracic trauma, cardiac injury must be kept in mind. H...
Reports describing traumatic lesions to the heart caused by a foreign body and #12288;are comparativ...
A case is presented of a 26-year-old man who was admitted to hospital having sustained a penetrating...
All around the world, mostly the young males are influenced by the penetrating cardiac chock. It is ...
We present a rare case of a child with penetrating cardiac injury (PCI) with a knife and its success...
Introduction: Cardiac trauma is considered as an emergency and due to its higher mortality rate its ...
Penetrating traumas, including gunshot and stab wounds, are the major causes of cardiac trauma. Our ...
A 43-year-old athletic black male was awoken from sleep with severe left-sided, nonradiating chest p...
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
We reported a young male with knife assault to his chest. He was transferred to the hospital without...
A 24 year old male presented to the emergency room with a 2 hour history of knife stab wound. He was...
Chest injury is an acute, extremely life-threatening condition. Among penetrating heart wounds, appr...
The patient 32 years old was admitted in the emergency department after a gun shot abdominal injury....
CASE HISTORY: The patient is a 23-year-old post-collegiate football player who was playing a recreat...